The Irish Rover (Original Mix)-Dance To Tipperary

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:Dance To Tipperary] [al:"10 Years Of Irish Music Hits"] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover (Original Mix) - Dance To Tipperary [01:54.06]On the 4th of July eighteen hundred and six [01:57.35]We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork [02:00.12] [02:00.89]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [02:04.09] [02:04.67]For the grand city hall in New York [02:07.25] [02:08.07]To was a nearleaking craft she was rigged fore and aft [02:12.03]And oh how the wild wind drove her [02:15.27]She had several blasts she had 27 masts [02:18.95]And we called her the Irish Rover [02:23.04] [02:24.73]We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags [02:28.24]We had two million barrels of stones [02:31.49]We had three million sides of old blind horses hides [02:35.45]We had four million barrels of bones [02:38.88]We had five million hogs six million dogs [02:42.22] [02:42.89]Seven million barrels of porter [02:46.19]We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails [02:50.19]In the hold of the Irish Rover [02:53.56] [03:24.54]There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee [03:28.00]There was Hogan from County Tyrone [03:30.95] [03:31.62]There was Charlie McGurk who was scared stiff of work [03:35.36]And a chap from Westmeathe called Malone [03:38.06] [03:39.05]There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule [03:42.78]And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover [03:46.17]And a man Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann [03:48.59]Was the skipper of the Irish Rover [03:53.76] [04:26.25]We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out [04:30.05]And the ship lost its way in the fog [04:32.78]And the whale of a crew was reduced down to two [04:37.00]Just myself and the Captain's old dog [04:39.25] [04:41.10]Then the ship struck a rock oh Lord what a shock [04:44.61]The bulkhead turned right over [04:47.82]Turned nine times around and the old dog was drowned [04:51.76] [04:52.49]And I'm the last of the Irish Rover